ABSTRACT
The imagination of most stag producers rests heavily on a solid Western preference for the missionary position. Parenthetically, by the way, Americans historically have demonstrated little pornographic imagination. The competition in America between the major producers of porno is rather like the traditional rivalry over wines between California and New York state. Sexual explicitness in movies, in spite of a lingering cachet attributed to foreign films, is becoming more and more an American prerogative—the Danes always excepted. A fair proportion of viewers drift into the emporiums of this chain, which has grown impressively from a single house on Sixth Avenue. The situation recalls Bertolt Brecht’s Verfremdung, the alienation of the audience from the performers, the prevention of identification with the people on screen. Typical example might be the appropriately titled Dirty Old Men Need Love Too, which finished a run at the Hudson and the Love Cinema.
